Preface

All services Danie have provided this far have been free off charge. In the majority of cases Danie paid his own travel and accommodation expenses and sacrificed benefits provided by his employer.

Dirk Booysen

Hi Danie,

Thank you very very much for you assistance in helping to locate my late father, Dirk Booysen, we were extremely pleased with the way in which you conducted yourself, your equipment and the service you offered our family as a whole. It’s obvious that the MOS equipment works very well, and even in the very difficult terrain that we had to look for my father, it was still able to point out

an initial search area of where he might be. After you further refined the signals, it was interesting to note that one of the GPS coordinates you gave as a search area actually went straight over my father. It was a pity that the plane was so badly damaged that they only saw it a few days later, but with the help of the MOS equipment we were eventually able to find him, and for that, I would like to extend our warmest thanks on behalf of myself and my family.

Thank you once again for assisting us in our time of need, and I wish you all the best of luck with the MOS system. This technology needs to be further explored and put to good use.

Johan Booysen

Fingerprint of Fate

The following website will allow you to watch "Fingerprint of Fate", an one hour documentary on the search for missing children in South Africa and Danie Krugel's involvement. Watch it here - www.mnet.co.za.

Madeleine McCann

Danie was in Portugal during July 2007.
As from the second day of her disappearance they have made every attempt to assist in the search for her.
Not to jeopardize the investigation in any way Danie requested the McCanns and the police not to reveal his involvement until the conclusion of the investigation.
Danie provided a full report with detailed maps of her location for searching. It was subsequently provided to the McCanns and Police.

Map location of Madeleine: July 2007

After five months of fruitless efforts to find Madeleine, despite detailed information given by me to all relevant parties, I have now decided to publish this information so that any member of the public who is willing and able to assist in the search for Madeleine may have access to the very same information I have been providing to the parties involved since July 2007.

I know that even if she was moved after July 2007, there will still be evidence of her presence in this area.

Newspaper Articles

New technology finds missing persons

SABC News, December 08, 2004

The developers of a new system says their technology can track missing people anywhere in the country, and beyond, by using a strand of hair. The equipment and system used is being kept top secret in Bloemfontein, but parents of children that were found say it really works.

The inventors say they only need DNA to find a missing person. The sample, technology and an advanced satellite system is enough to ensure a successful search.

Pierre Honiball, whose missing 14 year old son was found after 2 days, says the system works. “Undoubtedly there is a way to find somebody with whatever he uses and I can tell you this is the truth he found Andre within 25 minutes.” Jos Chadinha's frantic search for his missing daughter ended 90 minutes after providing strands of her hair. “He found her ... and he found her simply using the instruments.”

The method is still under wraps. Danie Krugel, a spokesman, says more needs to be done before the system is made public: “We are still in the experimental phase, the final stages of the experimental phase; we are not ready now to put equipment into the market place, but it came so quickly, the successes, that it caught us off guard.”

Experts are skeptical, but it's too early to prove or disprove. The group is in the process of setting up a web page and a call centre to provide more information on their product.

Inventor’s detection device tracks missing girl

THIRTY minutes. This is how long it took the Bloemfontein inventor of a human detection device to trace the body of a little girl who had been missing for a day.

The community and police searched in vain for five-year-old Naledi Ntebele of Majwe Masweu in Brandfort, Free State, after her disappearance last Sunday night.

The child disappeared when playing with friends near her grandmother’s house. An unknown woman apparently said she would take her home, but never did.

Ruth Ntebele reported her granddaughter missing at about 9.30pm on Sunday.

Superintendent Johan Gelderbloem, commanding officer of the Brandfort police, called Danie Krugel on Monday for help.

Krugel, the director of protection services for the Central University of Technology in Bloemfontein, wanted four strands of hair from the missing child.

“We eventually found a single hair on her jersey,’’ said Gelderbloem.

He said Krugel called him half an hour later and pointed out three routes in the area where the police should search.

“We would find Ntebele where the routes crossed.’’

Gelderbloem walked along the second route with a compass and discovered Naledi’s body wrapped in a sheep skin under a thornbush.

‘‘This is the first murder of a child in Brandfort.

“All the police officials at the scene cried when we came across the gruesome scene,’’ said Gelderbloem.

Naledi was apparently smothered and then raped.

Her parents, Jan and Miriam Ntebele, work in Alberton. They last spoke to their only child during a phonecall on Sunday morning.
She had asked them for a new pair of takkies.

“She was hurt and died a brutal death,’’ said Ruth, Naledi’s grandmother.

Krugel said that, as part of his research, which took place from February 2005 to November last year, he had conducted 38 missing person searches.

Just five of the cases had not been solved because, he believes, the missing people had been buried somewhere.

“Within 20 minutes after I set up my equipment in Brandfort, I picked up a signal. I try to help where I can and get mad when children are involved,’’ he said.

Paedophile's victims found?

News24.com , July 30, 2007

Elsje Neethling

Bloemfontein - The entire country has been wondering, while the answer has been right under everyone's noses.

That's what a Bloemfontein inventor says after he possibly found the solution to the disappearance of six girls 18 years ago.

Danie Krügel, director of security services at the Central University of Technology in Bloemfontein, claims to have developed technology that can trace humans by using a hair sample.

He mapped out an area for M-Net's Sunday actuality programme Carte Blanche in Pretoria where he believes paedophile Gert van Rooyen and his friend Joey Haarhoff buried their victims.

Krügel obtained samples of hair from Annemarie Wapenaar and Yolanda Wessels, both from Kempton Park and both 12 when they disappeared on September 22, 1989 and November 2, 1989 and used his Matter Orientation System machine to attempt to trace their bones.

Although the investigation was kept secret for more than a year, Krügel makes no secret of his conviction that the bones that he and a Carte Blanche team traced to a railway yard in Capital Park, are those of the two girls.

The area is about 2km from Van Rooyen's house in Malherbe Street, Capital Park.

The bones of two women, as well as men's bones, have been dug out here along the Apies River, near a PPC cement factory.

He believes the remains of Odette Boucher, Tracey-Lee Scott-Crossley, Fiona Harvey and Joan Horn are also buried in the vicinity.

The police are now busy excavating the area.

Krügel has had many successes with his equipment, but he said this one had been his easiest so far.

"The signals from each one's hair led me right to the area near a railway line in Capital Park.

"I knew a year ago that I was right and that Anne-Marie Wapenaar and Yolanda Wessels lie buried there," he said. "It was a shock to see how the bones had disintegrated and had become brittle.

"Who do the bones of the men belong to? They looked like sponge-bones.